Modern Warfare 3

There seems to be less and less buzz in the GESC for this game. Is anybody planning on picking it up at a midnight launch tonight?

I personally went with Amazon Release Date Delivery but it still says "Shipping soon". Has anyone ever requested release date delivery and seen this before? I'm considering trying to cancel my Amazon order right now and go to Best Buy at midnight instead.

every time i had ordered from Amazon for release date delivery, it always said "SHIPPED" by monday afternoon. That being said, I probably wouldnt worry that your order wouldnt come from Amazon - they are normally very good about things like that.

That being said, I am really disappointed in Amazon this time around becuase of the lack of deals they have going on for MW3. There are several B&M stores that have decent deals (Toys R Us -- $15 store credit w/ one game purchase, $40 w/ two game purchase .... KMart has a good promotion too). Amazon added their $20 promo credit for BF3 really late (i think day before release) so i guess there is still hope.

i am really, really excited for this one. Sure, its "more of the same" as many people say but when you like the "same" as much as i do it is not a bad thing!!!!!!

Personally, I only pay full price for games that I plan on playing online.... or the rare single player games that really appeals to me (Skyrim). This falls into that category though.

I almost always get my games through Amazon and get release-day delivery when it's available. *knock on wood* I've always had my game on my doorstep when I get home from work on release-day. I wouldn't expect this to be any different. Mine still shows as "shipping soon" as well. This isn't uncomoon though. Typically, I'll check again the next morning and it'll have gone from "shipping soon" to "out for delivery".

Then again, with all the buzz around this game, and the huge number that are probably shipping tomorrow, anything is possible. That's also why I took Friday off to play, instead of tomorrow.

I'm picking this up release day, likely at Toys R Us for the $15/40 promotion.

Is there going to be an Ars MW3 gamertag? Or are we just going to use the Ars Blops one? Or Ars MW2 for that matter? My play time is limited, but I've really enjoyed playing with you guys through Blops.

I'm picking this up release day, likely at Toys R Us for the $15/40 promotion.

Is there going to be an Ars MW3 gamertag? Or are we just going to use the Ars Blops one? Or Ars MW2 for that matter? My play time is limited, but I've really enjoyed playing with you guys through Blops.

There is a clan system for Elite members. I know myself and a few others got the Hardened Edition, so we'll have the Elite membership. We'll be playing on PS3. As far as how the clan goes, I'm not sure what we'll do. I play with imcheesing a lot (and hunts and JC), but he plays with the reddit guys, who have a much larger group of players. So it may be beneficial if we can all come up with one clan for resource purposes.

I'm picking this up release day, likely at Toys R Us for the $15/40 promotion.

Is there going to be an Ars MW3 gamertag? Or are we just going to use the Ars Blops one? Or Ars MW2 for that matter? My play time is limited, but I've really enjoyed playing with you guys through Blops.

There is a clan system for Elite members. I know myself and a few others got the Hardened Edition, so we'll have the Elite membership. We'll be playing on PS3. As far as how the clan goes, I'm not sure what we'll do. I play with imcheesing a lot (and hunts and JC), but he plays with the reddit guys, who have a much larger group of players. So it may be beneficial if we can all come up with one clan for resource purposes.

At least initially, I don't plan on purchasing Elite. It would be nice if there was a way for us cheap-o's to still be able to join up with Arsians outside of the Elite system (I'm on 360).

I just received shipment notification from Amazon. Shipped Fedex Overnight so it looks like I'll receive it at work tomorrow, then "get sick" sometime early afternoon and have to leave.

I was almost tempted to join the midnight launch lines since they tend to be somewhat exciting. Especially the rush home after receiving the game and logging on only to see 50,000 people already playing.

No immediate plans to pick it up. Enjoyed 1 immensely, 2 was ok, hardly played BLOPS. That and I just got BF3. The local Gamestop paired up with the pizza place next door to have a release party with 3 different bands. My wife saw the ad in the paper and thought about going for the music but then I'd be tempted to buy the game so I'm not going to remind her.

I'll probably pick it up either tonight or tomorrow. I haven't decided where I want to get it for the best deal. I'll probably pick up the Elite pass too as I'm sure I'll get my time out of it as I did with the amount of time with MW2 and Blops.

I have one coming that's supposedly a Hardenedededed Edition but haven't received word if that is the case.

Mine still doesn't show as shipped yet.... so now I am getting a little worried. However, I looked at my online banking, and I was charged for it, so hopefully they're just delayed updating the shipping. Seeing as how I pre-ordered MW3 in June, and then upgraded to the hardened edition the day it was announced, I'll be really mad if it isn't on my doorstep when I get home tomorrow.

Was already kind of ticked about this trying to make a console FPS into a subscription mmo business they're trying. But figured I'd relent and buy the hardened edition to at least get a deal on both together. Well turns out unless you pre-ordered some number of weeks back and gave whatever giant corporation an interest free loan, you have to get standard plus your subscription separate and pay MORE than the special edition. So fuck it, I walked out and came home to play some BF3.

Playing it is like taking a step back in time. It feels just like CoD 4. The contrast with Battlefield 3 couldn't be starker. MW3 is looking seriously dated. The maps take longer to load than Battlefield 3, whilst appearing substantially uglier and less detailed. Players don't feel like they're walking or running around, they feel like they're floating (and fast). Guns are loud, mainly. The ranking progression looks like it goes to about level 80, then you can prestige. It looks like it's going to be grindy as fuck if you want to unlock everything. The delta between the lowest-level Create a Class classes and the built-in default classes feels bigger than past games; to mimic the built-in classes you're probably looking at level 40 or 45 or thereabouts.

I'll pick it up after I finish Skyrim. If Oblivion is any indication, that should be some time around June.

Same.

I've been far to interested in Skyrim to pick up another time sink. I'm keeping BF3 for when I want to play multiplayer and Skyrim will be my main game for a while. There are to many games we are interested in coming out in a short period(Zelda, 3D Mario, Skyrim, Mario Kart, plus Uncharted and Battlefield) we are really going through and picking the ones we really want to play.

I should have listened t my own advice...... now shows as "out for delivery". That slightly amazes me, since it didn't leave the Amazone warehouse until after 7pm last night. I can't wait to get out of work!

Playing it is like taking a step back in time. It feels just like CoD 4. The contrast with Battlefield 3 couldn't be starker.

So it's a phenomenally good game then?

I would have to assume to. Personally, online shooters are like MMORPG's for me..... it's more about the gameplay than how pretty they look. Hell, if 007 for N64 was slightly modernized, I'd be playing that still.

Playing it is like taking a step back in time. It feels just like CoD 4. The contrast with Battlefield 3 couldn't be starker.

So it's a phenomenally good game then?

I would have to assume to. Personally, online shooters are like MMORPG's for me..... it's more about the gameplay than how pretty they look. Hell, if 007 for N64 was slightly modernized, I'd be playing that still.

Playing it is like taking a step back in time. It feels just like CoD 4. The contrast with Battlefield 3 couldn't be starker.

So it's a phenomenally good game then?

I would have to assume to. Personally, online shooters are like MMORPG's for me..... it's more about the gameplay than how pretty they look. Hell, if 007 for N64 was slightly modernized, I'd be playing that still.

I know... I haven't played the new one, but 007 doesn't exaclty have the same pool of players that the Modern Warfare and battlefield series both have. Plus, my friends have most of the CoD games, so I have people to play with. I probably will get the 007 game when it price drops though. Simply for the campaign.

Well, I'm interested in playing. I love the single player and co-op modes of the COD games (spec-ops/zombies). The multiplayer is just icing for me. I wouldn't want to play BF3 on xbox, so until I have a PC/Laptop that can run it on High settings, I'll be playing MW3 on the xbox.

If someone does make an MW3 Ars gamertag for us to friend, let me know. I'd much rather play with people that communicate in a party, than the chaos of purely public.

I am also amused by the lack of buzz on here versus, say, BF3. BF3 is great.

I plan on getting MW3 as well, but was coming here to see if anyone had played it yet and what their thoughts were. Pretty much all the reviews say that it is more of the same…which is a good thing in my opinion. I have had great fun with Blops, and anticipated more of the same with MW3. Plus the survival mode sounds like a good time (it was in MW2).

I have this reserved, but Im still not sure if I will pick it up. I am enjoying BF3 quite a bit and just dont know if I have the desire to pick up $60 worth of map packs or $50 worth of COD:E to go along with my purchase.

My interest in this series has waned heavily over the last few years and I think I could find a more effective use of my $60.

That being said, I do enjoy shooting people on the interwebs, so it makes this a tougher choice.

Yup. There's always glitches…it's incredibly difficult to make a game like this function perfectly across all the possible combinations of PC operating systems and hardware. That said, this is a game that prides itself on slick, smooth gameplay, and I expect that to carry over to the PC. I have faith that they know how to put together mostly functioning PC game.

I see people playing for a few weeks and then they will be running back to BF3 tbh. CoD is good to get your run and gun on, but after that it just dies. Last two games proved its nothing but "Modern 'Counter Strike' Warfare".

I see people playing for a few weeks and then they will be running back to BF3 tbh. CoD is good to get your run and gun on, but after that it just dies. Last two games proved its nothing but "Modern 'Counter Strike' Warfare".

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Heh, honestly though, MW1 was the height (imo) of the CoD franchise to date (please note, I have not played MW3, and probably won't spend much/any time on it).

MW2 and such took what was the very good, distilled essence of awesome that was MW1, and added so much utter crap to it (teleporting knifing? seriously?) that it was quite possibly, one of the few FPS games that I have actively come to despise. BLOPS in mind, for all it's flaws, redeemed the series a bit by removing SOME of the ridiculous crap, but BF3 has just completely replaced the CoD line for me again.

This is rather appropriate considering that I found MW1 mostly scratched that itch I had been feeling at the time for some more BF2 after I basically had stopped playing BF2.